thanks for the kind words everyone, so cool to see this get a post. just wanted to drop a fun little easter egg which i haven't seen anyone pick up on yet: in the intro there's a shoutout to the credits music from conkers bad fur day, a tune i've been wanting to do a remix of for yeeeeears

thanks for those links djp! i actually did come across HerrmuttLobby's solution in my searches, and downloaded his patch. but looking at it i could not quite decipher what was going on, let alone modify it for the function i was looking for (his takes a polyphonic midi from one midi track and sends it to "receivers" placed on separate midi channels which might then be connected to monophonic synths, etc.). i will have to take a look at abehr's patch as well - figure there's something to learn from seeing multiple perspectives on a similar-ish problem.
i think this will have to coincide with me taking a stab at it myself, though, if i'm ever going to hope to build some fluency with max. i'm thinking my approach might be to start with a simple patch that receives midi notes, then maybe an expression which compares them and sorts them from low to high, then routes them to separate outputs...idk
actually, now that i think about it...there might be a somewhat convoluted way of using HermuttLobby's patch, then the receiver + Ableton's External Instrument to send back to a midi track with SAC separated by midi channel. kind of funny, potentially some latency (not that it's a dealbreaker)

so i've made a preset in super audio cart that has 3 layers, but it only sounds good as a chord if the layers are each distributed to low - mid - high notes within a chord. at first i tried doing this within SAC by giving each layer a note range, but ofc this limits its use in general. so i thought this might be an opportunity to try working with max, which i have some knowledge of but have never really used for practical purposes.
my idea was a patch which would take MIDI data of a chord of 3+ voices and split so that the lowest note is only sent to the Low voice, highest note is only sent to the High voice, any inner voice(s) only sent to Middle voice.
this already far exceeds my abilities with max, and even then i can foresee some complications with overlapping chords/notes, how to handle monophonic parts (my hope would be that from a player perspective, it would seamlessly transition from balanced polyphony to a more normal 3-instrument keyboard split)
i'm kind of thinking out loud / firing a question off into the dark (rather than register for cycling 74 forums)
so i guess my question is: is it possible to use Max4Live to create a polyphonic MIDI splitter for Kontakt instruments, or does anyone here have any experience with this sort of functionality?

this is starting to feel nearly completed. ironed out some of the details in the piano, string, and drum parts. thinking of ways of making the A section more dynamic through fx modulation. the B section is a little muddy still. is there anything i'm missing here?

thanks for checking it out
update: i think this version represents more or less the completed form (some stuff is gonna need to happen during the middle and end parts). also some of the sounds and parameters need to be tweaked (and properly mixed ofc), but i think the texture is starting to sound a bit more balanced.

been a while since i've posted here
i'm currently working on a remix of a tune from Uncharted 4. i'm trying out a different approach to form that slowly builds tension through layering parts and hinting at later chord progressions. i'm taking a lot of inspiration here from Mogwai and Yotto. for reference, i'm basing my arrangement off the tune as it appears on the OST and in-game. at the moment i'd say i have maybe two-thirds of the form sketched out. some of the parts (like the drums) and other instrumentation are placeholders for the time being.
in any case, feedback is appreciated, thanks for listening
(updated 2/1)

yeah i am curious about that as well. the introduction of mega evolutions alone should be enough to influence the story in some way. if nothing else there should be a new set of megas. they already did mega blaziken so there will probably (?) be mega swampert and mega sceptile...which would be nice because i missed out on blazikenite D:

YAWN let me kno when you guys get this site in the 21st century with a properly functioning REMIXINATOR. my idea for a 9 minute epic crossover prog rock/dubstep/orchestral suite remix of the laser sound effect from space invaders has been stuck in my brain queue since 2006 and i blame it entirely on the permanent state of bureaucratic logjam around here